have ambition

Example Sentences

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No one can say they don’t have ambition, and it will be a wide open race.

From Salon • Dec. 30, 2025

"We need to think big and we need to have ambition to be able to do it," he said.

From BBC • May 27, 2024

"We understand people have ambition to continue to grow and develop... but its about transparency."

From Reuters • Aug. 10, 2023

I couldn’t have had any sense of awareness of a career or even how to have ambition.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2023

That I am ambitious is true," continued the Secretary; "there are few men not old who are not so, and I think it better to have ambition than to be without it.

From Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)